Nathaniel Barnardiston (British Army officer)

Major General Nathaniel Walter Barnardiston, CB, MVO (29 November 1858 – 18 August 1919) was a senior British Army officer.

Nathaniel Barnardiston
Born	(1858-11-29)29 November 1858 Sudbury, Suffolk, England[1]
Died	18 August 1919(1919-08-18) (aged 60)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Years of service	1878–1919
Rank	Major General
Commands	39th Division
Battles / wars	Second Boer War First World War Siege of Tsingtao
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Member of the Royal Victorian Order Grand Officer of the Military Order of Christ (Portugal)

Military career

Barnardiston was commissioned into the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot in 1878. After seeing active service in the Second Boer War, he became military attaché to Brussels, The Hague and the Scandinavian Courts in 1902, Assistant Commandant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1906, where he was made a brevet colonel in August 1907,^[2] and assistant director of Military Training in 1910, taking over from Colonel Henry Heath.^[3][4]

He saw action in the First World War during the Siege of Tsingtao in autumn 1914,^[5] before becoming General Officer Commanding 39th Division in August 1915, six months after being promoted to major general.^[6] He went on to be Chief of the British Military Mission to Portugal, for which he was appointed a Grand Officer of the Military Order of Christ,^[7] before his death in August 1919.^[3]